Tag "ron “pigpen” mckernan"
A 1966 Concert Album Showcases Embryonic Grateful Dead: Review
The 2026 release preserves a Fillmore Auditorium show from only about a year after the group (then called the Warlocks) played its first gig at a pizza parlor.
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June 17, 1972: Pigpen Plays Final Dead Show
Ron McKernan was a singer/keyboard and harmonica player with the Grateful Dead who last played with them on this day in 1972. He died the next year.
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So Many Roads Brings The Grateful Dead Into Sharp Focus
In So Many Roads author David Browne delves into the “long strange trip” of the Grateful Dead and makes sense of it all in a “smart & satisfying” band bio
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